Aside from bruises to your ego, can you say what real harm resulted from
the
events as you portray them (preferably in 25 words or less?)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Behalf Of Glenn
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 4:53 PM
To: Brian Siano
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [UC] important question about free speech rally
I'm very sorry to the listserv that Brian Siano, Secretary for the Friends
of Clark Park, has subjected you to misinformation and outright lies.
Boycott the "party for the plutocrats, celebrate the tyranny."
What we have here is an excellent opportunity to look at the listserv role
as a public record. For those of you concerned about keeping Clark Park a
public park, refer to two threads from Sept. 24th 2004 until Sept 29,
("Clark Park festival threatened" and "Clark Park festival in Park A").
This
discussion concerns both the FOCP and the Spruce Hill Civic Association.
You will be able to see why the civic association leaders like Siano rely
so
heavily on a combination of lies and personal character assassinations to
cover their abuses.
Most of Siano's, "Moyer is crazy and bizarre" post is not worth a response
but the following part was addressed on this list at the time it happened.
I
realize the importance of leaving a public record of the abusive role of
our
civic associations during the transition to corporate plutocracy. If the
republic survives, I hope these stories may someday help others learn to
fight the destruction of other communities.
Siano writes in 2007:
For example, about four years ago, it was agreed that several
representatives would be present when Rec sent out its stage for the
Festival, to ensure that it was placed properly. Two days before the
festival-- prompted by a very bad decision from Rec-- Glenn demanded
no one _but_ Glenn be present for the stage-placement. The rest of us
refused to change the plans, and said that we'd be out there as
planned. That morning came... and the only person who reneged on the
agreement was Glenn, who was conspicuously _absent_ from the
stage-delivery site _for a festival he was running_. Ever since,
Glenn's tried to say that this was an attempt by Tony and myself to
take over the Festival, heroically beaten back by Himself.
A brief synopsis to guide you.
In 2004, the new Spruce Hill Civic Association representative, Ed
Halligan,
made a serious crusade and demanded that now that he has moved into the
neighborhood the only event in the A park will be his Spruce Hill May
Fair.
With 48 hours remaining before a scheduled music and arts festival planned
for nearly 9 months, it appeared that the permitted festival was going to
be
canceled without prior notice.
I was the founder and leader of the festival organization with almost all
of
the financial and legal responsibility as I had held for the previous 5
years.
When I successfully intervened by contacting elected leaders at this late
and busy time and stopped this outrageous maneuvering, Tony West, Brian
Siano, and Ed Haligan managed to persuade the department of Recreation
beuracrat to violate the city's contract and deliver an expensive
"showmobile stage" to them instead of the contracted liable party, me.
The delivery crew apologized to me at the end of the day and explained
that
they had been ordered to deliver the expensive equipment to these jerks at
an EARLIER TIME and NOT CALL ME as we had confirmed and had done for
years.
The crew knew that I was required to sign a contract accepting liability
for
this equipment.
Brian is lying that I agreed to their final attempt at bullying. When I
learned they intended to intervene and "intimidate" the city workers when
I
received the stage, I warned Brian that I would call the police if any of
them attempted to interfere. I even called the police in advance to tell
them that I was concerned about this occurring at 7AM. Please note, the
police have always been supportive of the festival. This was in my post
from
Sept. 24, 2004:
Moyer posts on Sept. 24, 2004:
"Wish us luck. I will update the general public and begin action after the
scheduled festival. With less than 21 hours to go our situation remains
unresolved. Right now, I must meet with the police because I believe that
we
may be intimidated by an elite bully in the early morning hours. This
occurred last September as well. "
It is an incredible lie that Brian now maintains that I agreed to meet
those
assholes. He asserts that I irresponsibly missed the meeting time and
those
assholes saved the festival. As the the 2004 thread ends and these
assholes are shown to be the bullies they are, with the usual hubris, Tony
West claims that he was entitled to take over my role as leader of the
group
because he declared himself part of the CPMAC. This really put the icing
on
the cake of this public record captured at the time it occurred.
I think checking the listserv records is better than remembering Siano's
spin.
I apologize to the people of West Philadelphia for not bringing legal
action
for breech of contract against the Department of Recreation. In hindsight,
I
realize that incident may have been the last opportunity to save Clark
Park
as a free and open park for all Philadelphians and their visitors. I was
so
burnt out from the years of fighting with FOCP while I tried to establish
the festival and its tradition as a celebration of local art and the
neighborhood. When my group was afraid to pursue legal action, I just gave
up.
I'll be able to answer any follow-up questions after you have reread the
history. Thanks for your indulgence.
Sincerely,
Glenn Moyer
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Siano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2007 11:41 PM
Subject: Re: [UC] important question about free speech rally
Glenn wrote:
The Quality of life task force was a UCD/FOCP attempt to put Clark Park
stakeholders on trial with a secretive kangaroo court. They stacked the
decks with area bullies and held this in the creepy old Horn and Hardart
from Sept. 2001 to early 2002. Lew melmon was the 45th St
"representative" and Penny "represented" the 4300 block of Baltimore
Ave.
This is just my personal memoir, and not an official statement form the
FoCP.
I've spoken with people who remember this committee, and people who've
run
previous Festivals, and the general consensus was this. Some people had
complained about various events in the park, and there were one or two
people on this Committee who didn't like the festivals. In previous
years,
Festival organizers were easily able to beat these complaints back..
However, when Glenn was the "representative" of the Festival on this
committee, he was apparently unable to muster much of a fight... and he
resigned, thereby making himself even less effective.
I was also working with the Festival when Glenn began badgering Andy Cole
over his various obsessions, such as the Quality of Life Committee. What
was odd about this was that Andy liked the Festivals, was genuinely
conciliatory, and came to Festival planning meetings to work with
organizers. Glenn chose these moments to lecture festival people about
this now-disbanded QOL committee, and to demand that Andy somehow make
stacks of documentation public.
Several years ago, the people Glenn cited as the main anti-Festival
people
were not elected th the FoCP Board... and people who'd worked the
Festivals on the past, such as Tony West, Chris Leswing, and myself, were
elected. We responded to Glenn's concerns by organizing, at his
suggestion, an Outreach Committee. When invited to participate in the
Outreach committee, Glenn again demanded that we address this Quality of
Life Committee instead.
Glenn's demands have been consistently bizarre. At the time, the
Festivals
were in no danger: their "grandfathered" status was written into the
Large
Events guidelines. But at our Outreach meetings, Glenn co ntinued to
insist that the QOL Committee was a "secret" committee that continued to
exist, and he demanded that we admit this. (Many of had never _heard_ of
it beyond Genn's complaints.) He also demanded that some heaps of
documents about this committee, like meeting minutes and attendance
records, be made public. This struck us as weird because Glenn was also
claiming to have heaps of evidence about this nefarious committee...
minutes, newspaper clippings, survey forms, and the like.
For example, he;d demand that we provide him with a list of members--
but he'd been _on_ the committee, and he claimed to know who was on it,
so
why was he demanding that we "release" this information? Many of us
wondered: if Glenn _has_ this evidence, then why doesn't _he_ make it
public? Why doesn't he set up a website, and write this shit out to his
heart's content? (Or, does he just get off on demanding that other
people
obey his whims?)
Instead, Glenn berated Tony West over this, accusing him of covering up
this secret cabal and its continued influence over the highest levels of
government. Actual _outreach_ was, to Glenn, a concern secondary to a
more
important task: winding back history so Glenn wouldn't feel as though
he'd
_lost_ to a QOL committee that, evidently, barely did anything.
But Glenn's demonstrated an unhealthy obsession with Tony over the
years.On this very listserv, it's been a little disturbing to watch Glenn
demand Tony the FoCP President... over a period of _years_ when _Jon
Snyder_ has been our Prez. Tony has become this fearsome, diabolical
figure in Glenn's imagination, organizing a gang, preventing Glenn from
participating (despite Glenn's presence and speaking at public meetings),
and Lord knows what else.
UCD/FOCP was unsuccessful in its attempts to misuse the law and force us
into this review process. They disingenuously attempted to demand that
the law required all Clark park events to go through this special events
committee. Like so often occured back then, I was the one forced to
beat
the bullies in that creepy dungeon and show that this law was in no way
to be used as a tool to transfer the Woodland Ave Reunion and the Clark
park festivals to UCD. I remember Cindi, "we just want to make sure the
law is being followed" I didn't want to make fools out of FOCP
presidents, but they always leave me with no option.
The only time Glenn's made anyone look like a fool is when people try to
treat Glenn as though he's a responsible human being.
For example, about four years ago, it was agreed that several
representatives would be present when Rec sent out its stage for the
Festival, to ensure that it was placed properly. Two days before the
festival-- prompted by a very bad decision from Rec-- Glenn demanded no
one _but_ Glenn be present for the stage-placement. The rest of us
refused
to change the plans, and said that we'd be out there as planned. That
morning came... and the only person who reneged on the agreement was
Glenn, who was conspicuously _absent_ from the stage-delivery site _for a
festival he was running_. Ever since, Glenn's tried to say that this was
an attempt by Tony and myself to take over the Festival, heroically
beaten
back by Himself.
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